Embossing and ornamenting plastered walls and other surfaces



UNITE STATES PATENT ErIcE.

ALBERT HABERSTROIT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

EMBOSSING AND ORNAMENTING PLASTERED WALLS AND OTHER SURFACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 397,054, dated January 29, 1889.

Application filed July 13, 1888. Serial No. 279,866. (No specimens.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT HABERSTROH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Embossing and Ornamenting llastered \Valls and other Surfaces, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improved process of this invention for embossing upon and ornamenting plastered walls and other surfaces consists, in substance, in first preparing the said surface with a layer of plastic material readily soluble with water, and then rendering the so applied layer ata part or parts thereof, in accordance with the desired design of embossing or ornamentation, non-soluble, by charging or impregnating the same with a non-soluble material, after which the remaining parts thereof are removed with water, the whole resulting in the production of the desired embossed or or namented surface.

A mode of carrying out the present improved process and one most n-actieal consists in first applying to the wall or other surface to be embossed or ornamented in accordance therewith, preferably first having rendered said surface nonabsorbent by coating it with. an oil-paint or other suitable non-absorbent material, a layer of plastic material such as whiting or clay in a plastic condition which readily soluble in water. This so applied layer having become dry is then at the part or parts thereof necessary for the design intended rendered non-soluble in water by the application thereto and impregnating it with an oil-paint or shellac or varnish or other material non-soluble in water, after which the remaining parts of the layer of the said soluble material and those not so prepared are dissolved with water, and thereby removed, leaving the other portions intact, and which constitute and make the embossing and ornamentation desired. The application of the material used for rendering the soluble plastic material non-soluble may be accomplished with the use of a stencil plate or plates or by a brush or otherwise in any suitable manner, and the invention is not to be limited in this regard,nor in regard to any special kind of material which maybe employed; but those specially named are found to be most practical and serviceable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The process herein described of embossing I or otherwise ornamcnting wall or other surfaces, the same consisting in first applying a layer of material soluble in water, rendering portions of such layer non-soluble in water, and removing the remaining portions by dissolving the material mak in them, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the. presence of two sulj scribing witnesses.

ALBERT. HABERSTROI-I,

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, FRANCES M. BROWN. 

